I’m not gonna tell her!” I shouted back, beginning to lose patience with Rosie. I forgave myself for losing patience. I figured that happened when you got shot at. I’d never been shot at, but I was always a quick learner.
Most women, facing off with that kind of eye candy in close proximity, would pass out. Yes, these men were that hot. Seriously. No female brain could stay conscious with Luke Stark, Vance Crowe and Hector Chavez two feet away from them. Fortunately, I’d grown immune to it.
Joker’s voice was a quiet growl when he stated, “You know you got my love, brother.” “I do,” Tack returned. “And it’s a privilege, Carson.
You okay?” I asked Rosie and Rosie gave me an “are you nuts, that lunatic just tied me up with duct tape” look.
I looked at the hit man who was watching us closely and told him, “Don’t think in the crazy-ass soap opera that is my life that I’ve forgotten about you. Or you,” I said to Rosie.
Ten minutes later everyone was gone, giving out hugs, air kisses and well wishes for a successful cherry popping as they went.
Raiden deciding to serve our country and doing it by joining the baddest of the badasses, as everyone knew the Marines were.
Yeah, it had a blah, blah, blah, with its blahdity, blah, blah. Then there was the blah, blah blah.” Of course, he used words for the “blah blahs”, but I didn’t understand a single one of them.
With everything I am, baby doll, and everything I’m meant to be.
And what happened was that Ren let my hand go and his shot up and out. He cupped the back of Zach’s head and slammed him face first, fast and hard enough to make a sickening thud, into our table. His fingers gripping Zach by the hair, he pulled him back. Zach blinking and his nose bleeding, Ren brought him to within an inch of his face.
Mace never struck me as an affectionate type of guy. Like Luke, if you told me Mace would be affectionately demonstrative in a touchy way in public, I would have laughed. But there it was, proof positive.
It’s my experience that a weakness understood is no weakness,” Draven put in at this point and I looked to him. “If you know you have it, even if you can’t control it, you can make allowances for it. It is those who ignore or don’t understand their weaknesses who are wasted by them.” I.
My stomach fluttered. Not butterflies, just excitement. I loved motorcycles.
I don’t know whether to be terrified of the chick Lottie has lined up for me, or jump the gun and just walk into the dressing room and ask her to marry me.
The mistakes we make in life don’t define us, Amy. The way we handle ’em after makin’ ’em do. You made a mistake. Now you’re handling it and doing it the right way and that’s who you are.
Stick with me. Believe in me, Cady. Even if you don’t know what I’m asking. I’m still gonna ask it. Don’t give up no matter what.
I shook my head and kept my mouth shut. I hoped Tex was long gone and calling 911. I feared that Tex was close and planning Armageddon.
It takes a lot more guts and balls to forgive and move on than it takes to hold on to resentment and nurse it to bitterness, which is just a way to twist the emotion of regret into something you can stomach.
He loved Violet. I knew that when he pulled out all the stops and made a miracle happen when he found us in the middle of nowhere in a forest and took a man’s life to save hers. He also loved her girls. And I loved that.
In life, you sometimes lose. If you’re lucky, more often you win. And even as you note the losses and try to move on, you should make sure to celebrate the wins.